Author: Justin
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Today – Basics of Capacitive Touch
Reading some basics on capacitive touch.Introduction to Capacitive Touch Sensing – Technical Articles Thus, the only way to effectively deal with low-frequency noise is to be adaptable: The threshold used to identify the presence of a finger can’t be a fixed value. Instead, it should be regularly adjusted based on measured values that do not…
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Today in e-broidery
One touch point seems to be working. I’m not positive this is capacitive touch, but I don’t really mind that. I get how this works. I’m not sure without the capactive touch library I could have a single … yeah actually I probably could do it w/o the library, not as capacitive touch, but just…
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First Stitches
What about active embroidery? Or an active fabric display?Never been done. Start with embroidery and make a thumb point and how the thumb point feels might signal whether its a button or menu or keyboard or slider. Good tutorial on embroider capacitive sensorsYouTube Tutorial on EmbroideringYouTube Got some stitches made today. My first! And I’m…
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Embroidery Experiments
Wearable targets is the reason for the season. See swatch book. Swatchbook Pt 2 Great background on e-broidery;
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Signal-to-Noise – Lab Friday
I’m feeling like I’ve mastered the SNR things. This probably isn’t quite right. There seems to be two big things before me. What do you want to work on today? There is a kind of noise that comes from talking and moving. The talking piece is straightforward. The moving piece not hard but the domain…
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How do you know a good signal from a bad one? – Lab Friday
First Friday back in the lab. Waiting for lunch to be delivered. Where did I leave off? How do you know a good signal from a bad one? The idea of feature extraction and SNR, the two previous pomodoros, are co-mingling. There’s a ton of papers to find once you know the term : phonocardiogram.…
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Lifelong Kindergarten
I’m thinking about these things again when I think about raising someone’s agency. I think about the opportunities afforded to me as a young person, opportunities to fix everyones computer! Literally everyone had a PC that was busted and needed speed-up or de-malwaring. And I think my neighbors wanted to give a local someone that…
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Fashion Studies
I may make this a tradition to read something outside the field on the weekends as the kids are going to bed. This field is an exciting one for me and I have had some connections stir this interest more for me. Clothing is a good indication of the material culture of a society for…